Morning everyone!
New account, just registered, and wanted to give some data / information on what I've found so far.
For reference, I've been using Excavator 1.38a and Bminer 3.0.
I have an EVGA GTX 1050 SC, and an EVGA GTX 1060 3GB. FWIW the 1060s give some pretty good hash / $ investment compared to the 1060 since I got it for $190 after rebates. I think the 192bit GDDR [vs 128bit] of the 1060 helps. I know the extra CUDA cores certainly do.
I just mine in the background / overnight on my computer to earn a couple extra bucks. If I can convert my mining and eventually turn it into USD [even a couple hundred bucks] over the course of a year, it will help pay for my alcohol habit
The data I have below is not an apples - apples comparison since I could not get both miners to be happy with the same offsets in Afterburner, so use the information accordingly. At some point when I have more time I'll lower the clock / memory offsets and do a 1:1 test for both miners.
Also note, that with the "=polling-true" option in bminer I did see a significant increase in CPU on my FX-8370E, started out at about 25%-30% and 6 hours later was close to 50%. With that option disabled, CPU was less than 5%. I also did not see a significant change in hash rates with it on or off. This may be due to the video cards and/or settings I am using. Who knows.
My main concern was seeing how accurate the hash reporting of Bminer [well, any miner really] when compared to the mining pool, in this case it is Nanopool. Later on I will do better testing regarding efficiency and then of course top speed. I have 2 profiles in Afterburner, one for lower power draw [NORMAL] and one for higher power draw [FAST], as are labeled in the chart.
My first test with accuracy had a 6 hour overnight run of Bminer reporting an average hash of 465, while Nanopool reported 462.4. Those results are within the margin of error.
Hope this helps some people out. I'll continue to fiddle with things and either update this or post more information later.
73's
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